by Kelly Wilbanks posted in Products & Prizes

Skin does weird things when you're pregnant. I knew that, but at 3 months postpartum I had some skin issues that concerned me enough to book an appointment with a dermatologist.
I am a freckly person and have already had a bout with skin cancer. At 26 I had a small scratch on my nose that just wouldn't go away. I mean -- like 8 months later there was still an abrasion. I pushed my dermatologist to take a biopsy that later showed basal cells.
That whole ordeal deserves its own post, but suffice it to say I have reason to be concerned when it comes to my own skin, and the skin of my children.

At my appointment I was expecting a once-over, with various moles, skin tags or freckles noted on a chart, but what I got was a lecture about how long it truly takes to see skin damage (30 years), how sunscreen might not be all it's cracked up to be, and how in short many people in the Middle East don't have these problems because: burkas. They keep their skin covered. I left my appointment chewing on all of it. I have always trusted sunscreen to keep me safe. It's those years between the age of 16 and 20 when I switched to sun oil to get that Brittany Spears glow that have always had me worried.
But what if the sunscreen I trusted to keep me safe actually put me in more danger because I ultimately spent more time in the sun" Mind blown.
So, I'm not saying sunscreen is evil. Please lather your children up in the good stuff. I'm stil...